Broken World Shop Mod

Shop Mod for the Dungeon Siege 2 Broken World Expansion v1.02
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This mod adds more pages of items to the shops in the Dungeon Siege 2 Broken World campaign. It makes merchants in ALL towns sell more stuff. This mod does NOT make shops sell any set or unique items.

Changes:-

1. Armor Stores now have 6 FULL pages of gear in the Equipment tab (just like in DS1 since shops in DS1 had like 5 pages of gear in the "Armor" tab) and 3 FULL pages of shields in the shield tab.

2. Weapon Stores have 4 FULL pages of Melee and Ranged weapons in their respective tabs.

3. Mage Stores sell ALL the spells in the game; all 5 qualities (small, medium, large etc.) of potions in the game; 1 Full page of rings, amulets and spellbooks in the misc. tab.

4. Reagent Stores sell ALL the Reagents available in the game (INCLUDING the quest-specific ones) and they DON'T run out.

5. Changed the time the shops' inventory expires from 15 mins to 5 mins. So shops will now restock/reset their inventories after every 5 mins instead of 15 when they are no longer in the frustum. However, be careful of what u sell! as u'll have no way to get the item(s) back once it expires after 5 mins.

NOTE: if u just made a new char or are low-level, the shops may sell less pages of stuff than stated above cuz lower level gear usually occupies less space.

I would add more pages of gear but i had to strike a balance between waiting for ages for the game to unfreeze and doing a quick merchant inventory load so u can dump your loot quickly.

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NOTE: if you are using another shop mod, uninstall it before installing this mod.

This mod requires the Broken World expansion to work. Using the faster shop reset mod will invalidate your savefile. Therefore, u must use elys' allsaves fix. if u dont want it to, just use the shop mod without faster shop reset. also, do NOT use my DS2 World Shop Mod with this mod. it will cause a mod conflict.

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Installation:-

1. Extract the Broken World Shop Mod.ds2res file to your Broken World Resources folder.

2. if u want the shops to reset/restock their wares faster, extract the BW Faster Shop Reset.ds2res file to your Broken World Resources folder. ***WARNING*** this step will invalidate your savefile. if u dont want ur savefile invalidated, skip this step.

3. Run DungeonSiege2.exe or DS2BWAllSaves.exe to play.

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Uninstallaton: Just delete the Broken World Shop Mod.ds2res file and/or the BW Faster Shop Reset.ds2res file or move it to another folder.

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Version History:

v1.02 - separated the faster shop reset change into a separate file so that the shop mod can be used alone without invalidating your savefile.

v1.01 - changed the shops in the original DS2 campaign to sell the new Broken World items.

v1.00 - initial release

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Known Issues:

1. When tryin to view a certain merchants inventory or viewing another tab in the merchants inventory, the game may freeze for a few seconds. This is normal due to the CPU trying to generate the _HUGE_ amount of gear. LOL I havent encountered any crashes or hang-ups of the game while tryin to view any of the merchants inventory tho. I have an overclocked 2.8 GHz CPU running at 3.15 GHz. If u have a slower CPU than mine then it might take awhile

2. Avoid using this mod on multiplayer IF and ONLY IF u have a CPU that barely meets the minimum requirements for the game as it may cause client disconnection if your game freezes for too long trying to generate the huge amount of gear. If u have a fast CPU (3+ Ghz like mine) then it shouldn't be a problem on multiplayer then.

3. Sometimes when selling your loot, the game will keep freezing up for 1 second. This behaviour is due to a memory management issue in ds2 and cannot be fixed.

*addendum to #3: avoid selling your loot while on a shop tab that has too many items. usually this will be the armor, weapon, spell and/or misc tab. selling items while on a tab with too many items will cause the game to freeze momentarily for 1 second or so.